NEVER BE ABDUCTED, PART I -The Chicken Hawk
The bad news for parents is the child abductor is out there. Out there in big numbers. The good news is, with the help of you, the parent actively working as their Safety Coach, the great majority of children (96%) can stop the Chicken Hawk – the cowardly child molester – in his tracks, or at least cause him to break off his attack and drive off empty-handed.
This I say boldly because I know the Chicken Hawk from too many years working the streets as a state parole agent. The Chicken Hawk is cowardly on one hand but extremely dangerous on the other. Dangerous because he chooses only prey who are smaller, weaker, and, if possible, more frightened than he. He is deadly because he possesses no soul. He is a total psychopath with absolutely no concern for the feelings, the safety, even the life of a small, beautiful child. His only thought is of and for himself.
The Chicken Hawk is a cold blooded sociopath who chooses his prey methodically,. calculatingly. This is a game to him and he has the unnerving patience to play the game for months, tracking, profiling and abducting just one chosen victim. Even when he attacks, it is rarely rash and impulsive. Even then he has a set up where he can test his prey, set the prey up by gaining his or her trust, and, then and only then, when the child is ready, does he strike, catching the child off guard and hitting the kid with blinding speed, carrying him or her off before the child can make a move.
The moment that every Chicken Hawk lives for and prepares months for is that instant when he sees the shock hit the child, witnesses the paralysis that freezes the child’s entire body just before he tosses the child into his car or van and drives away from the initial crime scene and heads to the isolated secondary scene. A house, apartment, section of woods or lonely grove minutes or hours away.
You might be thinking, Um, Thanks, Hammer. Thanks for all the Bad News. What can I possibly teach my child to stop this type of predator in his tracks? To which I reply – Plenty. You can teach them plenty. And most of the strategies are based on the hated Chicken Hawk’s personality profile:
The Chicken Hawk
- He is not looking for a fight.
- He is looking for a mild, meek, compliant child.
- He abducts through intimdation in most cases, not physical force.
- He does not want to physically harm, injure or kill the child in the initial crime scene.
- He is a coward, an opportunist waiting for the moment the child is alone, weak, distracted.
- The Chicken Hawk has a pre-planned scenario or script. The longer the script is allowed to play out by the child, the bolder, more confident he becomes.
- Speed and Invisibility are the Chicken Hawk’s greatest friends. He needs to get the child out of that child’s milieu and into his as quickly as possible and with as little notice by witnesses as possible.
- The Ideal Abduction Scenario is: A lone child in an isolated area who acts “normal,” is quiet, un-aggressive, who can be snatched quickly without drawing attention.
- The Worst Case Scenario (where the potential kidnapper will most likely break off his attack and go elsewhere) is: The intended victim is with another child(ren). When that child spots the Chicken Hawk he makes direct eye contact, moves to gain distance, screams or makes noise otherwise, points at the Bad Guy, demands to know “What do you want? Get Back!” and uses barricades (tables, chairs, benches, garbage cans, trees, picnic tables, cars, et al.) to create distance as well as a barrier.
- The last type of child the abductor will profile and choose as a victim is a kid who Acts Crazy. “Crazy” children can scare off a potential abductor for any one of a zillion reasons, but the fact is they are unpredictable, possibly dangerous, and have unlimited potential to screw up any kind of predetermined abduction plans (Note: I am not saying your child has to BE crazy. He/she just needs to ACT crazy, like rolling on the ground as if his/her shirt is on fire, screaming, pointing, grabbing a branch off the ground and wielkding it like a weapon).
Parents: As your child’s Safety Coach, here is your assignment. Accepting what I have written in the above passages, what can you teach your child in the way of preventive measures to maximize his or her chances of escaping and evading an abduction attempt?
In Part II I will delve specifically into several Escape and Evasion Strategies for your child, like:
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Improvised Weapons.
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The Element of Surprise.
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Waiting For the Best Time To Counterattack.
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Delaying the Bad Guy in the Initial Crime Scene.
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Simple, effective strikes and gouges against vulnerable, primary targets.
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Escape and Evasion tactics that REALLY WORK at the initial crime scene, just outside the Bad Guy’s Car and Inside the Car!
By Hammer